Texas Uses New Abortion Ban With Bounty Hunter Provision to Target California Doctor

Texas antiabortion politicians have made one thing clear: Their ban was never meant to stop at the Texas border. On Feb. 1, 2026, Dr. Remy Coeytaux of California became the first person to be sued in federal court under Texas' newly enacted House Bill 7, a bounty-hunter law that invites private citi...

Texas Uses New Abortion Ban With Bounty Hunter Provision to Target California Doctor

Texas antiabortion politicians have made one thing clear: Their ban was never meant to stop at the Texas border.

On Feb. 1, 2026, Dr. Remy Coeytaux of California became the first person to be sued in federal court under Texas' newly enacted House Bill 7, a bounty-hunter law that invites private citizens to file civil suits against anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails or provides abortion medication to women in Texas.

HB 7 “is the first law that a state has passed that has specifically tried to counteract another state’s shield laws,” said Marc Hearon, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, who is defending Coeytaux.

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